AI as artistic medium vs. AI as industrial tool

The university funding crisis and the market logic that caused it

The AI performer question moves from speculation to casting

The Duchamp problem: is the readymade exhausted or inexhaustible?

The AI avatar problem: when estates commodify the dead

The hidden architecture of illegitimate money

After eleven years and roughly 1,800 episodes, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ended on Thursday, May 21, 2026, at the Ed Sullivan Theater. The finale was less a victory lap than a held breath – si…

The museum as political battleground

AI authorship and the literary prize system

Cannes as a geopolitical theater rather than a film festival